When to Maybe NOT Consider a Power Lift Chair:

Dementia where planning of movement is still intact or just starting to decrease

Or you are 3 months past any cardiovascular surgery

Then you want to keep using your own body (and mind) to get you from a sit to stand position so that your body continues to work properly.

Let’s look at the pros and cons to using lift chairs in the next sections.

Power Lift Chairs Pros:

The Pros of using a lift chair to get up and down can be wonderful.

With worn out knees that go snap, crackle, pop, a lift chair can help avoid overuse of arthritic and painful joints.

Other pros to using a chair are:

1. Conserve Energy:

We only have so much energy in any given day. As we get older that level goes down. If you or your loved one has congestive heart failure or experienced a past stroke, conserving one’s energy becomes even more important.

Simple getting out of bed and getting dressed can require more time, rest breaks and so forth.

So in this case, having a power chair might be perfect so that we don’t have to spend our energy getting up and down, we can do things that are more important like preparing the next meal or activity.

2. Ease the Burden of Care on Caregivers:

If you’ve lost the ability to perform a transfer in and out of your recliner chair then you’ll need help. As any caregiver can attest, transferring someone that needs max to total assistance can be a heavy task to say the least. Even with proper transfer training, it can be a challenge.

So by having a power lift chair that can help with the transfer, this can make a big difference in the amount of care needed as well as the safety and health of the caregiver’s body.

3. Increased Safety with Self Transfers:

Falls that occur when getting in and out of bed can be devastating. Instead, some people opt for sleeping in their favorite power recliner and avoid the risk of a traditional bed.

Recliner lift chairs that have the Zero Gravity Position are easy to fall asleep in and they make getting up and down much easier.

They also do a great job of controlling swelling in the lower legs after surgery or in chronic disorders like peripheral vascular disease or coronary artery disease. This is done by elevating your legs and feet above your heart.

Fully Reclined Lift Chair Can Be a Nice Alternative To a Bed

You can also sleep comfortably in recliner chairs that have the Infinite Position(fully reclined horizontal position).

This can help if you have a hard time sleeping in a regular bed or if you have trouble getting in and out of bed.

So those are all positive aspects worth considering.

But there is a flip side we mentioned earlier, it’s about using power recliner chairs versus your own body to perform daily self transfers.